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Ryan Setliff is a traditional conservative blogger at Ryan Setliff Online. Professionally he's said to be a digital marketer, a web developer, an entrepeneur, a former advertising agency executive, and Chief Marketing Technologist for a large network car dealerships. He's billed as an historian, and has an academic background in business, history, and pre-law.

His personal web site reflects divergent cultural interests in agrarianism, Christianity, traditionalist conservatism, special creation, theology, and Western Civilization. He appears to have had previous involvement in libertarian politics as a contributor to LewRockwell.com. Setliff seems to possess a keen interest in American constitutional history and authored a dissertation entitled "States Rights Apogee, 1760-1840" covering topics such as interposition, nullification, and federalism. Among changes detected in his political philosophy has been the drift from paleolibertarianism to paleoconservatism. For instance, Setliff has formerly affirmed free trade as an ideal form of political economy, but more recently has been observed lauding President Donald J. Trump's economic policies, such as economic nationalism, protectionism, and tariffs on China. In 2006, Setliff interviewed Tom Bethell of The American Spectator.

Setliff's cited influences among cultural-political figures include: the late M.E. Bradford, Wendell Berry, Patrick Deneen (author), Bill Gairdner, Thomas Fleming (political writer), David Gress, Samuel P. Huntington, the late Russell Kirk, the late Robert Alexander Nisbet, and Southern Agrarians. Other influences include: Stephen C. Meyer, William Dembski, and Michael Behe among creationists.